Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

  • People demand freedom only when they have no power.

  • Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  • Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

  • Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.